work McFadden is a contributor for wowOwow.com, a web site launched in 2008 for women to discuss culture, politics and gossip. She has additionally hosted or co-hosted a number of documentaries and specials on ABC. She is co-chair of the board of IWMF (International Women's Media Foundation). Personal life McFadden married Michael John Davies, editor and publisher of the Hartford Courant, on September 9, 1989; they were divorced in 1996. She has a son with Foreign Affairs editor James Hoge, Spencer Graham McFadden Hoge, who was born in 1998 and named after the actor Spencer Tracy. She is the executrix of the estate of longtime friend actress Katharine Hepburn. She has Crohn's disease and has done public service announcements to raise awareness of the condition. McFadden practices Transcendental Meditation and has supported the work of the David Lynch Foundation. In October 2020 Town and Country magazine published an account McFadden and her son Spencer wrote about their road trip from New York City to California, where he was a student. The account described the accommodations they had to take due to the Covid 19 virus. Spencer, having grown up in New York City, had not learned to drive, until he moved to California. McFadden encouraged him to earn a driver's license by promising him a new car. Awards George Foster Peabody Award (1985) Cine Golden Eagles (2) Ohio State Award Silver Gavels (2) from the American Bar Association Grand Award of the New York Festival Blue Ribbon of the American Film Festival Earned an Emmy in 2020 Gerald Loeb Award for Video in 2020 References External links Biography at abcnews.com Cynthia McFadden at wowOwow 1956 births Living people ABC News personalities American television news anchors American television reporters and correspondents Bowdoin College alumni Columbia Law School alumni Columbia University alumni People from Lewiston, Maine American women television journalists Gerald Loeb Award winners for Audio and Video 21st-century American women